1. 1 Corinthians 16:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 16:8 (Summary)

1 Corinthians 16:8 (ESV)

8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Paul uses the Jewish calendar to give a time frame to his travel plans. Pentecost was the feast of the harvest, celebrated seven weeks after the Passover. It would always fall in summer (either in May or in June).